Word: rovere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tender Hour (Ben Lyon, Billie Dove). Those who have never seen Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks, or read Beverly of Graustark, or thrilled to The Rover Boys, or breathed the fragrance of a 5-&-10c perfume counter, may get a composite impression of all by contemplating this creation about a U. S. hero who fights off the Grand Duke Sergeivitch and all his villainous fellows in order that the creamy, soft heroine may snuggle under his bold wing...
...bears, fierce tigers ? and the im mortal legend of George Washing ton and his father's cherry tree. In Dr. McGuffey's stories, children got bright new silver dollars when good, said "No, ma'am" to their mothers. Their rooms were "cham bers." Their dog was Rover. People went "down cellar...
...mind the whole performance of these two, ably supported by Lionel Banrymore, represents a high point in cinema art. For once, in "The Show," we have a hero who is not the ideal of the author of the Rover Boy series, a type taken over bodily by the "movies", Gilbert portrays a man who is a thorough sconndrel, and yet somehow likeable despite that fact, and he portrays the part with a very deft touch...
...Take Rover a-romping, ride Dobbin...
...yardarm by his Most Christian King. His undoing was brought about through a stormy love affair with a blodthirsty Spanish beauty who repulsed him in three attempted rapes and was finally won through his dramatic murder of her entire family. Farrere out-Sabatinis Sabatini and creates a sea-rover beside whom all others become as his ironic nickname-the Lambkin. The reader's only regret is at his final end-an end due only to the blindness of his love, which leads him to kill his best friend and finally to deliver himself to his enemies in order...